Barber, Mary, approximately 1685-1755. The prodigy: or, the silent woman, in a letter from a lady in town to a friend in the country

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Imprint: Dublin : printed by E. S., [1726?]

First line: Tho' Rhyme serves the thoughts of great Poets to fetter,

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Type

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Date

1726

Call number

143229

Provenance

Purchased from Frederick R. Halsey by Henry E. Huntington through George D. Smith, December 1915. The volume was put up for sale in 1890 by Robson & Kerslake and includes an 1895 bookplate of Swiftian collector Colonel Francis Richard Charles Grant (1834-1899).

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Associated people

Barber, Mary, (approximately 1685-1755.)

Belcher, James. (1687?-1743.)

Carey, Henry, (1685 or 1686-1768.)

Delany, Patrick, (1834-1899,)

Grant, Francis, (1847-1918.)

Halsey, Frederic R. (-1725,)

Harding, John, (active 1721-1729.)

Harding, Sarah, (1685-1763.)

King, William, (1711-1736.)

Mountcashell, Edward Davys, (1674-1749.)

Owens, Samuel. (1687-1738.)

Philips, Ambrose, (1671-1729.)

Sheridan, Thomas, (-1738.)

Smedley, Jonathan, (1667-1745.)

Stretzer, Thomas, (1685-1740.)

Swift, Jonathan,

Tickell, Thomas,

Ware, Henry,

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